21 Inspiring Quotes on the Space Element
Sharing with you 21 quotes on the space element. Space is open, all-accomodating and all-pervasive. From it the other elements arise. This is part of the series of quotes on the 5 elements, earth, water, fire, air and space. Exploring the elements as part of a mindful life can bring balance and allows us to tap into the energy of each element. Stability and groundedness for the earth element, flow and adaptability for the water element, vitality and passion for the fire element, movement and change for the air element and finally the space element.
“You are the sky, everything else is just the weather.”
“The true person is
Not any one in particular;
But like the deep blue color
Of the limitless sky,
It is everyone,
Every where in the world.”
“There’s the space that seems to be out there, like the sky and the ocean and the wind, and there’s the space that seems to be inside. We could let the whole thing mix up. We could let the whole thing just dissolve into each other and into one big space. Practice is about allowing a lot of space. It’s about learning how to connect with that spaciousness that’s inside, and the spaciousness that’s outside. It’s about learning to relax, soften, and open — to connect with the sense that there’s actually a lot of room.”
“This is how I would die into the love I have for you,
As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.”
“Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.”
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
“Instead of struggling against the force of confusion, we could meet it and relax. When we do that, we gradually discover that clarity is always there. In the middle of the worst scenario of the worst person in the world, in the middle of all the heavy dialogue with ourselves, open space is always there.”
“Just as space can accommodate the whole universe – the mountains, continents, and so forth – the nature of the mind is so vast that it can accommodate the whole of phenomena. ”
“Just as space isn’t defined by the objects that move through it, awareness isn’t defined by what it apprehends. ”
“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go.”
“Awareness is like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.”
“No beginning
No end
Our mind
Is born and dies;
The emptiness of emptiness.”
“Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.”
“Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness...”
“Fundamentally, there is just open space, the basic ground, what we really are. Our most fundamental state of mind, before the creation of ego, is such that there is basic openness, basic freedom, a spacious quality; and we have now and have always had this openness.”
“Basic space and awareness are innately all-encompassing. Basic space is the absence of mental constructs, while awareness is the ‘knowing’ of this absence of constructs, recognizing the complete emptiness of mind essence. Space and awareness are inherently indivisible.”
“Empty essence means very, very open and very spacious, like a totally open sky. Space has no center or edge.”
“Meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on. The meditative space is like the big sky — spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises”
“The root of all that exists…, is one’s own mind. Primordially, mind is emptiness. Merge into the sky-like absolute expanse, empty, luminous, beyond clinging.”
“Emptiness here, emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.”
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